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Steinbeck #1: Pigasus LbNA #32519 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 2, 2007
Location:
City:Littleton
County:Arapahoe
State:Colorado
Boxes:1
Planted by:Tai Chi and Chai Tea
Found by: preboxed
Last found:Nov 4, 2007
Status:FFFF
Last edited:Jul 2, 2007
This series honors John Steinbeck, arguably the greatest American author to date. He was born in 1902 in Salinas, California and died in 1968. Steinbeck adopted the ‘Pigasus’ (flying pig) as a personal logo and used it in all his correspondence. He would refer to himself as ‘a lumbering soul but trying to fly’. He added the Latin phrase ‘Ad Aura Per Alia Porci’ (To the stars on the wings of a pig) to the logo.

Future boxes in the series will honor individual Steinbeck books.

Clues: Cipher 1 yields the 'type' of cipher 2 (http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cpsc/cryptography/vigenere.html)


Cipher 1. QMGLW

Cipher 2. 9 33 58 2 35
42 8 9.
14 53 37 80 109 94 53 84
114 38 100 27 10 15

As in all encrypted text, the danger of dits (garbles) exists. Beware! Also, in the key, hyphenated words are considered to be one word, not two.

Hints available upon request.

The box includes a hand-carved stamp, a hand-made log, a felt-tip marker, a stamp pad, a pen and a reward for the first finder.